Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-08-20
I'd EDITION.
--latest TalGglaDS to The Star.


Mother and Daughter Found
Dead Together - They Had Taken
LaudannM ana Cut their Arteries
with a Razor.
NEW YORK, August Ca disgusting stencil
filled the tenement No 81 Charles street for the
past few days which seemed to come
from the rooms on the second floor, occupied
by Mrs. Melvina R ". Payne and her daughter
Anna n. On Monday last the women mad oesn
they had gone into the country. Mr.. Hamrnann,
the owner OF the house, this morning got out on
the 1re-escape and peered through the souIteIs
into the women's room. He saw both the women
lying dead on the bed, which vas bespattered Win
Dl0Od. Maggots crawled over the sheets Horror-
stricken, the man rushed for the pOnce, ana y
l0cksm1th was procured who burst open the door.
the woman had been lying dead since Monoay.
A razor and an empty laudanum bottle Were on .
eaalr beside the bed Han stapined oy 1ne Rosod
cut the arteries at their elbows and ankles, and
6ed to death locked in each others arm Death
side, facing each other when found. Letters found
on table beside the bed showed that they ha0
carefully c considered the plan OF suicide ana de
Ing them was so soaked with blood that
the address was almost illegible. The police
made mac It out to be "Miss H. A. Weed, No. IL West
Miss Weed is q daughter OF the lnte Thurlow
Weeo ana me Paynes were known to be Old lrlends
The letter read as follows:
"MIss H. A. WEED,
:, Dear F,Iend:-1f anything happens that we are
IN the Albany Rural Cemerery in oaken casIets.
Mr: Jas A. Burns, OF the cemetery, knows where
our lot is My mother had SOL in the Becker
have money in the above bank; also in the
B0wery Saving and the Dry Dock in Sd avenue.
These amounts will pay oil the funeral expenses.
AFTER they have been paid we both {my mother
and mysel0 wish the balance to be spent in taking
care or the cemetery lot at Albany.
little homestead, but that is all hopeless now. We
are both helpless now as TO our minds. We are
not mt to care for ourselves. The contents Of our
house Is to be givent TO the poor.
August 18th, 1857.
This is the request Of Anna M. Payne and her
mother, Malvtna X. W. Payne. Tell the sisters Of
Trinity Hospital goodbye, particularly Sisters
"Do please crafty this" followed in
the mothers handwriting. "And may
alone; no one to care for US. You and your dear
father have been our only friends Oh, dear Miss
weed, do, DO grant the last wishes. 1want to rest
death TO being separated from her mother. We
worship. each other. We cannot be separated.
My darling ,n is almost raving mad Forgive for
Mrs. Eugenie: If Miss Weed Is not able to
grant our requests will you in the name
send our remains s To ApanS an to M
A. Burns, at the Albany Burial Cemetery, and he
Will attend to all. There are means suff1c1ent to
pay all expenses. ANNA nj. PAYNE"
1--WE are both Of US my mother and
l. insane, and dread the mad-houSe. We
want to lie with our family. Tell our
relatives where we lie. Our relatives are: Henry
Martyr. 81 Seelye avenue, Cleveland, o.; $. NJ.
talbot, Wllloughby, Lake County, o.; Julia A.
Mansfield, Chatauqua, Franklin county, n y"
The Payne family had lived In the house upward
OF three years. They were quiet gentlewonlen:
and hailed from Albany County. where they had
known the Weeds. Mrs. Payne was widow abou.
sixty years old. Her daughter was thirty five
years; Was teacher in an EastSide jubilee school.
1t was not known by the neghborS that there was
anything unusual about the women.